Posted in arts and crafts, holiday, picture books, reading on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We didn’t get around to making pipe cleaner (chenille stem) wreaths until this week but once we had them made, we went wild with our huge bag of red, white, and green pipe cleaners.
M developed several crafts of her own including a wreath made by curling a pipe cleaner into a spiral and then wrapping [...]
Posted in arts and crafts, holiday, homeschool, picture books, reading on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every year, we read several books and do some activities to learn about Hanukkah. This year, we’re reading Toby Belfer Never Had A Christmas Tree, Mrs. Greenberg’s Messy Hanukkah, and I Have A Little Dreidel, all favorites we discovered last year.
Using this pattern from Enchanted Learning, we’re making paper dreidels so we can play for [...]
Posted in arts and crafts, holiday, picture books, reading on December 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yay! Advent is here! We’ve got lots of fun activities lined up for the next few weeks. We made an Advent wreath on Sunday and slowly started decorating the house. Last night M got to stay up late drinking cocoa and helping me decorate, a new tradition we started last year. We set up my [...]
Posted in arts and crafts, booklists, holiday, homeschool, picture books, reading on November 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I know I just posted my list of Thanksgiving books but Advent (the 24 days leading up to the celebration of Christmas) will be up on us very soon. No one should miss Karen Edmisten’s wonderful series for a no-panic Advent. She has a host of wonderful suggestions to help families enjoy the season rather [...]
Posted in booklists, chapter books, holiday, picture books, reading on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I looked at my list of favorite Thanksgiving books for kids and realized it was quite short. I’d love to hear more suggestions!
Here are our favorites:
In November by Cynthia Rylant
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin
Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac
Over the River and Through the Woods by Lydia Maria Child
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House [...]
Posted in family fun, holiday, homeschool on November 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As the holidays approach far more rapidly than I want to admit, toy catalogs are filling the mailbox and talk is turning to wishlists for Santa and the grandparents. For those of you who’ve also begun pondering holiday gifts for kids, I thought I’d share some of our favorite (as in actually played with often) [...]
Posted in holiday on April 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy Easter everyone! May your day be filled with joy!
Posted in holiday, picture books on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We celebrated 12th Night by reading Tomie de Paola’s Three Wise Kings and making Three Kings’ bread which we shared with friends at a late afternoon playdate. The bread turned out soo0oo yummy. I was intimidating by braiding the dough, but it was much easier than I anticipated. In fact, M did most [...]
Posted in arts and crafts, holiday, parenting on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been doing nothing a lot during these days of winter break and enjoying it immensely. Of course our nothing is really something, making art, talking to friends, reading, but it’s nothing that would be considered productive or anything to be crossed off a to do list.
We’ve still got our tree up and our decorations [...]
Posted in holiday on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas everyone. May you rejoice today with family and friends.
M is sleeping uncharacteristically late, especially for Christmas morning. I’m making coffee and enjoying the last stillness the house will see for many hours. I have pancake batter ready to go and the presents lie in wait. I’m anticpating a morning filled with squeals of [...]
